Gah-Kai (pronounced 'GAR-kay') is a PhD candidate in political theory at Warwick. His thesis concerns the ethical and political issues in mitigating the risk of catastrophic tsunami-generating earthquakes. He is supervised by Keith Hyams and Simon Caney.
His interests cover most areas of social, legal and political philosophy. Aside from his doctoral research, he has written on consent in medical ethics and he has an ongoing project on the morality of discrimination (especially in LGBT contexts). He also has an emerging interest in bringing the resources of analytic philosophy to bear on issues in psychiatry, criminology, criminal justice an…
Gah-Kai (pronounced 'GAR-kay') is a PhD candidate in political theory at Warwick. His thesis concerns the ethical and political issues in mitigating the risk of catastrophic tsunami-generating earthquakes. He is supervised by Keith Hyams and Simon Caney.
His interests cover most areas of social, legal and political philosophy. Aside from his doctoral research, he has written on consent in medical ethics and he has an ongoing project on the morality of discrimination (especially in LGBT contexts). He also has an emerging interest in bringing the resources of analytic philosophy to bear on issues in psychiatry, criminology, criminal justice and transitional justice.
He has been involved in various kinds of engagement activities, including writing for civil society bodies and giving outreach talks on the social dimensions of earth hazards.
At Warwick, he is affiliated with the Centre for Ethics, Law & Public Affairs and the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group. He is also a member of the UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction and the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering.
